No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.
For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.